By Mageplaza you can find many extensions that will help online stores improve customer search such as Magento 2 Layered Navigation and Magento 2 Advanced Search extension, and Magento 2 Shop by Brand extension is also one of such great tool. Similar to the navigation, Shop by Brand allows filtering by product attributes, but they are neither color or material or any physical features of the product. The plugin bases on brands (manufacturers) the products are made by.

In this helpful Mageplaza documentation, you will achieve the guide of How to use and How to config on the frontend and backend of Shop by Brand Magento 2 module.

As soon as installing Shop by Brand completely, your customers can easily search all products under the favorite brands in your inventory. Especially, on its interface, there are 4 ways of shopping by brand:

The search box on Magento 2 Shop by Brand has some functionalities that are alike to Magento 2 Ajax Search by Mageplaza. In the box, entering some words of the brand name and achieving the drop-down results instantly on the current page.

You can generate specific categories for brands which direct your customers’ minds to gravitate toward some certain brands, with fetching categories like “Feature Brands”, “Best Seller Brands”, “Mageplaza’s Brand”, etc. Do not hesitate to plan to promote brands you desire!

This module provide a short-cut way for navigating to “manufacturer” workplace, from here you will manage all available brands and create new one. Make you way to Mageplaza>ShopByBrand:ManageBrands

To generate a new brand, follow these steps

All brands are listed under Manage Options section, click on Add option on the bottom of the list, right after, a new row will appear.

Click on Save Config to save the new brand.

Tap Setting to open the “Brand Information” page for configuration.

Under Brand Information section,
* Set Page Title for the new brand
* Create URL Key
* Upload Brand Image from your computer
* Set the brand to be displayed on featured brand slider or not in Featured field
* Enter Short Description (appear on the search result) and Description (appear on Brand Listing)
* Choose the CMS Block to show brand as a static block on anywhere of your page. You can disable it by leave it blank.